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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.
